June 2018
Quantifying Qualitative Decisions
Decisions must account for different factors for multiple stakeholders with differing priorities. How do we meet the challenge that are qualitative in nature?
Find out more »July 2018
Ethical Dilemmas & Democratized Proliferation Of AI
Ethical dilemmas arise from the economic consequences of extended deployment of AI systems. We will learn how to use open source software and decentralized education to proliferate AI tech for all.
Find out more »August 2018
Game Night at the Bagdad’s Backstage Bar
Join us for the CHI-Bowl to enjoy indoor sports and hang out. Dig out your bowling shirt, bowl a few games, or socialize with your friends and colleagues.
Find out more »September 2018
Panel Discussion: Ethics in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
This panel will explore ethics in development, design, application, business use, and usability of mixed reality tech. Gain insight from leaders in the tech space, and to apply this new tech in functional ways for your business.
Find out more »October 2018
Ethics In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Participate in a deeper ethical dialogue about emerging technology, and interaction design’s role. This session is informed by many months of research.
Find out more »November 2018
“F.U.” Money, Courage, & Ethics in the Workplace
Learn how personal finances play a huge role in silencing us and how financial freedom can lead to finding courage, agency and voice at work.
Find out more »January 2019
General AI: Where Machine, Humanity, and Society Intersect
In this presentation Shita will share his research in AGI and its global impact. He will layout one potential future scenario and a roadmap to get there as well the ethical and moral guidelines that will face designers his team is engaging with this year.
Find out more »February 2019
AI-driven Images in Radiation Therapy
New products for treating cancer with radiation therapy can provide therapists with high quality MR images in real-time, which can enable them to detect patient and tumor movements. This, in turn, creates the potential for much more precise and effective treatments for cancer.
Find out more »March 2019
Designing the Internet of Everybody
Ali Colleen Neff, Ph.D, CultureEncode This talk revisits the question of, to recall the work of fellow digital anthropologist Genevieve Bell, the “mess and mythology” embedded in smart technologies, and asks how we can harness the power of humanity’s global imagination to offer not only access to, but authorship of, the internet of things to everybody. Learn More
Find out more »April 2019
Smart Cities: Design Thinking and New Technologies that Seek to Address the Wicked Problems of Everyday Life
Ann Marcus, Marcus Consulting Group As citizens and design thinkers what role do/should we play in how the latest smart cities technologies--sensors, cameras, platforms, aggregation and analytics algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence--transform how we live, work, play, learn, love, see, move, engage and understand our world--and how it understands us? I'll tell you what I know and then let's discuss! Learn More
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